Codementor Weekly - Running Cypress in Gitlab CI

Running Cypress in Gitlab CI

I ran into some difficulties a few weeks ago when attempting to run Cypress (https://www.cypress.io/) tests as part of my CI script in Gitlab. The application I was working with has a Golang backend and the front end is generated with Nuxt (https://nuxtjs.org/). As this project had private dependencies, my CI script...

The "this" binding in JavaScript

In this article I talk about what I've learned about how to know where this points to in a given function. Basically this is me sharing with you, in my own words how to do so. And yes, I did that weird drawing at the top 😀 Firstly, it is important to understand that the this binding is not determined when a function...

NaN, isNaN() & Number.isNaN()

The number type has several special values, and one of them is NaN. In this article I am going to share some of the things we need to be aware of when working with this special value. I suggest you try the code snippets as you find them along the article. The naming is confusing Let's do a typeof on NaN to see what...